Recent content by Mr B

Love it? Well, i don't. But it's no longer a forced hatred. With windows 8.1 Update 1 it actually behaves as a PC again, rather then as a touchscreen device where the touchscreen broke. But then again... You could always install a mod and get Windows 8.anything to behave like this, so it's not...

The orange cable is "power good" and needs to be hooked to either 5v, or ground... I thought it was ground, but your experience indicates the opposite. Don't have any AT PSU's around anymore, so i cant test it. Either way, when the voltages stabilize, there should be a 5v reading over that pin...

Batteries are a bit finicky. While you might be able to "zap" some life in to them by briefly exposing them to over voltage, you still need to take the pack apart and rebuild it for a reasonable success rate, and at that rate... Just get new cells and put in there. Sad part... New cell's might...

You don't fly the phantom clipper. You set the autopilot, let it aim you up, disengage it, and then you just floor the throttle. Using the EMC, and the turrets to take care of "threats", and let them unload what they got in to your shield... Engage the autopilot when your closing in, and it will...

I'm sadly thinking your right. Well, about the .060 part. In a couple of generations old FPGA stock will be powerfull enough to run 000-030 softcores at "real" speeds. When it gets cheap enough (when people no longer want to have them as storage heaters) they have to end up somewhere, and if we...

Uh, what, wait. Aren't Grece included in the Schengen Agreement? I know i don't pay import taxes and so on for stuff from the swiss alps... (I'm in Sweden.) B!

I think your wrong. I have little doubt that there are needs that makes a fpga solution both expensive and cumbersome for quite some time, but i have little doubt that a fpga 68030 that would outperform most 68060 boards would attract some users. Even if it is without a fpu. Lets face it. Most...

I doubt you will ever see a 680x0 + "some CPU" design that gets a new factory run. Faster accelerators will come when the FPGA's can emulate 68030 at higher speeds, at low cost chips. And i'm not sure what your on about, bridging the gap, by sticking a x86 CPU on a Amiga accelerator? You do...

This is just sad. Did you tell the person you got it from, that it was simply a chip that got dislocated and needed re-seating for it to work? It's 17 years wasted doing absolutely nothing due to a 5 minute fix. Glad you got it working tho. Cheers. B!

Honestly, i wouldn't bother with getting a quite that old machine. I'd hit a P3, S3 Virge or Trio, and a SB16. Yes it's way overkill on power, but it's not going to go near it's max workload leaving it running cooler, and parts will be easier to come by. Also, that leaves plenty of room for a...

I was snooping about, looking for a price estimate on a BPPC, and ran in to this thread. Yeah, search gives you all sorts of odd returns. It made me forget all about the price i was looking for, and i just had to read this through... All i could think when the thread started was... "No. No...

Well, i only got a PSP, Xbox, PSX (first gen) and the A1200 in sign... And a few PC's. 4, i think, not counting the laptops. But that wasn't why i posted in this thread, really. AppleIIFan, you got some nerve. Should be ashamed. If you were a friend of mine, i'd denounce you. Suggesting that...

Pads, Then the Playstation joypad, but i actually prefer the version with sticks, as it's slightly heavier. And i pretty much hate the Xbox controller. If we are allowed to talk about "newer" stuff, then my favorite stick is a Saitek Cyborg 3D. Well, if a 11 year old stick is still considered...

Yeah. I'm guessing it's still the same stick, but... I'm looking for a cheap stick for a build of my own, but i want some sort of opinion from someone with a grab and manhandle opportunity, so to speak. (Well, a few opinions really. So far it seams a bit like luck of the draw with sticks from...

DX supplied the parts? How does the stick feel? B!